I love that book! To me it is a noir gothic. Read From Hell,
a graphic novel about Jack the Ripper. It has an extencive
note section. That is where I learned about Hawksmoor.
Stephanie
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>From: John & Carrie <
johncarrie@sprynet.com>
>To: "Rara-Avis@Icomm. Ca" <
rara-avis@icomm.ca>
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: Hawksmoor
>Date: Mon, Mar 27, 2000, 6:45 PM
>
> I'm sure that if I'm full of shit on this, Bill will
rightly cut me off, so
> I'll give it a shot. I recently finished this and
found it to be one of
> those things that comes along that is incapable of
being placed in a nice
> little nook. Too extreme to be a cozy, and yet,
perhaps too, I dunno,
> "lofty" maybe, to be hard boiled?
>
> An incredible story about a killer whose acts are
reflected centuries later,
> and very, very compelling. Incredibly insightful on
the nature of evil, I'm
> alittle surprised I'd never heard of this until
relatively recently.
>
> Anyone else checked this out? If so, is this hard
boiled at all?
>
> Tribe
>
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